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Stuck at the pop-up page, just no. There are now so many sites where you have to agree with over 300 companies and their terms to track you for ads... How about finding another business model? This is beyond annoying.

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They're often filled with dark patterns too. I have to dig about seven pages in to turn of tracking to third parties in some of these popups.

Might be a difference with me being a European visitor though?

This is just too much work at some point. And I'm guessing the GDPR scare plays a role too for European users—and often a counter productive one at that it seems.

You can give Brave (https://brave.com/) a try. I used to play whack-a-mole with the pop-ups until I started using it exclusively for browsing the internet. Not anymore!

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